From the monthly archives:

January 2009

More Birthday Cakes

January 12, 2009 | 21 Comments | Email | Print

These birthday cakes were done for a very good friend of mine whose father and daughter happen to share a birthday. She threw a party celebrating both this past weekend and wanted a special cake for each of them. Her daughter turned 2 and she planed a brightly colored polka dot theme, and her dad [...]

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Penn State Graduation Cake

January 6, 2009 | 20 Comments | Email | Print

This cake was made to celebrate the December graduation of a Penn State University student. The client asked for a 2-tier cake with dots on the bottom tier, stripes on the top tier, and the iconic Nittany Lion on the top of the cake. I was admittedly a little nervous about pulling off the lion, [...]

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The Best of 2008

January 4, 2009 | 7 Comments | Email | Print

Although I am a couple of days behind, I wanted to do a “year in review” of the food I featured on my blog over the past year, similar to what I did for 2007. I took a lot of new leaps in the kitchen during 2008, tried many new things and conquered a number [...]

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